My job is definitely not essential (I work in ops for a category of app where nobody dies even if it is unavailable for years at a time). "Essential workers" are the flipside of "bullshit jobs". If grocery stores aren't stocked, if docks aren't open, if crops aren't planted and harvested, people die. It actually matters. Nobody dies if the marketing department for a craft brewery can't work for a year, or if the design team for free-to-play RPG #20,345 fails to release a new kind of in-game currency.